After Cassie Randolph shocked followers with an look on the Bachelor season finale earlier this month, she joined Kaitlyn Bristowe for a candid interview about her actuality previous — and her off-camera future.
“I don’t assume I even meant to not do it,” the Bachelor alum, 26, stated throughout the Tuesday, March 22, episode of the “Off the Vine” podcast, explaining why she hasn’t talked a lot about her time on the ABC sequence. “I believe it simply type of occurred that manner. … In the event that they ever wished me to, like, make an look like the opposite evening, it was tremendous enjoyable. So, I used to be like, ‘In fact,’ nevertheless it simply by no means actually comes up.”
Earlier than her look on the March 15 finale of Clayton Echard‘s season, Randolph had stayed quiet about her time on the present. Colton Underwood selected her because the winner in season 23, which aired in 2019, and the duo dated till Could 2020.
The California native later filed a brief restraining order towards the previous soccer participant, 30, alleging that he stalked and harassed her. The restraining order was dropped in November 2020, and 5 months later, Underwood got here out as homosexual.
Throughout her interview with Bristowe, 36, Randolph claimed that her ex didn’t give her a heads up in regards to the Good Morning America look the place he revealed his sexuality. “I discovered the identical manner that everybody else did,” she defined, including that she noticed a video in regards to the information on social media. “It was horrible.” (Underwood introduced his engagement to Jordan C. Brown in February.)
Randolph’s look on the Bachelor finale marked the primary time she’d spoken about her time on the present. “I really feel like folks have been so shocked that I used to be on,” she advised Bristowe. “I might like to know why folks thought it was such an enormous deal.”
In the course of the episode, the Biola College graduate advised host Jesse Palmer that she noticed similarities between her time on the present and Susie Evans‘ scenario with Echard, 28. The marriage videographer, additionally 28, determined to go away within the fantasy suites episode after studying that the Missouri native had been intimate with the opposite two finalists. Randolph equally left the present earlier than Underwood despatched his different two finalists dwelling to win her again.
“I undoubtedly was having déjà vu watching this, for positive,” the College of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alum stated throughout the finale. “I believe the truth that Susie left within the first place simply type of reveals, you realize, she actually caught together with her instinct and was proper — as onerous because it was, she needed to go away.”
Randolph added that she hoped Evans didn’t really feel any “strain” to reunite with Echard if he tried to win her again — which he did. The duo revealed throughout the finale that they acquired again collectively after filming ended.
“When she initially got here on the present, she wished to seek out one thing,” Randolph stated. “I simply hope that she sticks together with her instinct.”
Maintain scrolling for extra revelations from Randolph’s look on “Off the Vine.”
